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A lever; also, leverage. [Local, U. S. & Eng.] Pry pole, the pole which forms the prop of a hoisting gin, and stands facing the windlass.

See Prian.

Inspecting closely or impertinently.

In a prying manner.

A public building in certain Greek cities; especially, a public hall in Athens regarded as the home of the community, in which official hospitality was extended to distinguished citizens and strangers.

A member of one of the ten sections into which the Athenian senate of five hundred was divided, and to each of which belonged the presidency of the senate for about one tenth of the year.

The period during which the presidency of the senate belonged to the prytanes of the section.

See Prithee.

A salt of caprylic acid.

See under Capric.

A contrivance for obtaining a light instantaneous, as a lucifer match. Brande & C.

Spiritual relationship or affinity; gossiprede; special intimacy. Bale.

Leprosy. [Obs.] Holland.

Having great power of leaping or running; nimble; active. [U.S. & Local Eng.] She is as spry as a cricket. S. Judd (Margaret). If I'm not so large as you, You are not so small as I, And not half so spry. Emerson.

Of or pertaining to capric acid or its derivatives. Capric acid, C9H9.CO2H, Caprylic acid, C7H15.CO2H, and Caproic acid, C5H11.CO2H, are fatty acids occurring in small quantities in butter, cocoanut oil, etc., united with glycerin; they are colorless oils, or white crystalline solids, of an unpleasant odor like that of…

Supplying, or tending to supply, a deficiency; fully completing. "Complemental ceremony." Prynne.

ious to learn; eager for knowledge; given to research or inquiry; habitually inquisitive; prying; -- sometimes with after or of. It is a picurious after things that were elegant and beatiful should not have been as curious as to their origin, their uses, and their natural history. Woodward.

y of deserving damnation; execrableness. The damnableness of this most execrable impiety. Prynne.

Wild raving or debauchery. [R.] Prynne.

f office or dignity; to strip of honors; as, to degrade a nobleman, or a general officer. Prynne was sentenced by the Star Chamber Court to be degraded from the bar. Palfrey.